Although originally from 2009, it just came out in late 2011, or at least thats when it was available to me. Taken from the Solo Banton EP “Music Addict” Out via Juno peoples. Great tune and a current favourite of mine, fits in any mix and breaks down everything.

Artwork by the amazing Lover Smith (do yourself a favour and check him out)

Solo Banton – Music Addict

These two guys have a good taste when it comes to food and even a better taste when it comes to the tunes they knock out. Homegrown heroes who are really fun to hang out with, that know their way around the bass, so let your body slowine to this one. 2 Great tunes from their forthcoming double single, expected on February 10th, in 9 days, of their new album ”Dirty Dancing”. Epic title, i was even thinking of calling a club night like that, so that’s the proper Zeitgeist meine Herren!  The first one is a cumbia like slow & techy badboy called “Slowine” and the 2nd one is a minimal but tough dancehall tune called “Dickie Riddem”. The Bronx on their vocalist Warrior Queen: ”Flow is wicked. Dutty as fuck. Dance pon di dickie.” Proper caribbean Anthem! Get it via Juno

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In my opinion, a magnificent reggae-ish cover version of Katy B’s dub-pop song ‘On A Mission’. I hope you like and enjoy it as much as i do.

The Skints – On A Mission (Katy B Cover)

i have been off the radar for a minute, building our own venue, i mean proper handywork and figuring out the feel of things, not too much the style at first, but the soul is something that eminates from within in my humble opinion, so i was worrying about the feel of things and i think i pointed it into the right direction, and now the ship sets sail, which means i have a lot of catching up to do on my very own website and thats why this is gonna be a long, long post. there are tons of sounds & tunes around me, so let me sum up a few for you which havent yet made it up on our website.

Glory - Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter

great little gem by jigga. soul samples + jigga = a win/win. Glory – Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter by Warhol2011

Great Lake Swimmers - Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit)

a brandnew song by one of my favourite bands – the great lake swimmers. more G L Swimmers on chromemusic. Great Lake Swimmers – Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit) by nettwerkmusicgroup

Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Papa Chajes (Basement Freaks Remix)

nothing new if you are used to balkanstylee – just worth mentioning cause its got that bump

Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin' (Robin "T" Treier Mix)"

Robin, a good friend of the entire family and great mind when it comes to taste and style did his rework of this soul anthem, thats more like a oldies radio favourite these days. Robin gave it that essential spin. i like  Eddie Kendricks – “Keep On Truckin’ (Robin “T” Treier Mix)” by Robin “T” Treier

Yasmin ft Shy FX & Ms Dynamite - 'Light Up (The World)'

Any track with Ms dynamite on, will make it on this site, and this video here, produced by veteran shy fx, starts properly at 2:22 as soon as Ms D steps on the scene :) Yasmin ft Shy FX & Ms Dynamite – ‘Light Up (The World)’ from Denitsa Dimitrova on Vimeo.

Gnucci Banana - Famalam Jam

Schlachhof Boys just shared this, laughing my ass off. Modern day Stacy Q of Barcelona

The Dirty Honkers "Ginger Bread Man"

A Swing set, hailing from Berlin, Dirty Honkers by Name. good track

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Rediscovered my love for Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Going Up The Country – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – Messing With My Life Kopie

i feel like dancing, the 2 best Disco tunes at present need to be:

Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone – (Stern-Disco-Remix)

Changed & Disco Tech – Let Me Be Good (DiscoTech version)

Blumentopf exclusive & Jan Delay exclusive 

Our buddies Blumentopf were featured as an exclusive for xmas via catchafire (on their 4 track exclusives pack). the Rmx is totally FTW

Blumentopf – SoLala – CAF Excl.

Jan Delay & Samy Deluxe – Lucky Punch – CAF Excl.

new year, new style, new everything "Time in Mind" - the 2 Bears

Time-In-Mind – the 2 bears

Aroused by Tom Vek

Aroused Tom Vek

thats about it, i guess. i am off to watch this african sci-fi movie here. speak soon

Found all these gems latley by listening to some dancehall radio stations and once again I am suprised what a vital scene this still is. Here´s a little roundup of what kept me moving most over the past few weeks and months

Movado – Settle down

Cecile – Green light

Baby Cham – Wine

Beenie Man – Wreck The Runway

Stephen Marley Ft. Melanie Fiona – No Cigarette Smoke (In My Room)

I’ve found this reggae version of John Legends soulful song earlier this year but haven’t really recognized it. Stumbled across again tonight and hope you use to love it like i do right now. Enjoy

John Legend – Used To Love You (JBMD Reggae Remix)

Freddie McGregor – Stop Loving You

Top Tunes are coming a bit late this month – we had our 7th anniversary this month and we kept busy doing these 8 bday mixtapes for you as well as the new YUM YUM Mixtape “The Dude”. Plus we had some issues with our servers (were under attack) and took us some time to figure that out, but its all good now, you just need to empty your browsers cache or wait for it to be gone in a few. So, hope you dont mind us being late. but here you go with this months Top Tunes Selection. Enjoy

Boy – Little Numbers

YUM YUM Soul Break by Chrome (taken from the Dude Mixtape)

Goapele ft Los Rakas – Play (Los Rakas Remix)

Rizzle Kicks – When I was a youngster

Joker – On my mind feat. william cartwright (Jokers “Vision” Song, which we had on our YUM YUM Top Tunes in July and on my Firewall Mixtape, seems to be blowing up left and right at the moment)

Heavy D tribute – Nuttin but love Cookin Soul remix

Nneka – Sleep (ft. Ms Dynamite)

Gotye – Somebody That I Use To Know (Bombs Away Remix) (definitely best version of Gotyes anthem)

Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Jamie Woon Remix) (and the original “Video Games” is awesome)

Bombay Bicycle Club – Video Games (Lana Del Rey cover) A definite Sweet Serenade Track!

 Delroy Wilson – Dancing Mood (the original to last months The FreeStyle MellowShip – Dancing Skulls top tune)

 Gotye – I Feel Better

Bobby Bland – Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City (scratchandsniff re-rub)

Rachel Rambach – I’m Yours (Cover)

VV Brown – Children (Keep On Singing) feat. Chiddy

Hoodie Allen – James Franco

Y’akoto – Diamonds

Never Chasing Pavement – Adele & Jay-z [Urban Noize Remix]

Won’t Go (Wishing) Adele & Jay-z [Urban Noize Remix] (the entire rework Album “Brooklyn Chicago London” is great)

 Fuck it All (Chrome Remix) – Childish Gambino vs Zeds Dead

 The Hood Internet – Union Motivation (Little Dragon x Kelly Rowland)

Several versions of this song have been made over the past 50 years, these are my two favourites.

Delroy Wilson – Dancing Mood (rocksteady version 1966)

Delroy Wilson – Dancing Mood (reggae version)

A new YUM YUM Mixtape, just in time for tonights Chromemusic Party party and uhm, our newsletter receivers (YUM YUM goody Mail) were the first ones to get the tape, as usual. Anyways have fun with this one, its not called Dude for nothing. Enjoy

YUM YUM Mix – the Dude

Full Tracklist

1. Wicked Games – Coeur de Pirate (the Weeknd Cover)
2. Coffee Break – Zeds Dead
3. You oughta know – Das Racist
4. Could a Runaway – Delly Ranks & Gappy Ranks
5. Hold the line – Major Lazer (YUM YUM Warning Rmx)
6. Tightrope – Janelle Monae & Gloria Jones (YUM YUM Soul rework)
7. Bongo Dub – Manu Chao – Dub Traffic Control
8. Dem Nyam Anything – Busy Signal
9. Mi tuff like Steel – Mr Vegas
10. Put it on – Busy Signal
11. Sister Nancy – Wick-it
12. YUM YUM Soul Breakdown (James & Bobby Purify, Freddie Scott, the Marvelettes)
13. YUM YUM Party Break (Ripple)
14. Otis – Jay-z & Kanye West & Otis Redding (Cookin Soul Edit)
15. White Girl Problems/ I’ll be your Pillow – Hoodie Allen & Eliza Doolittle
16. Fel del av garden – Movits!
17. Multiply-Tebaks ti Klubben – Lidell/Gonzalez/Vibrante
18. the Walk – Mayer Hawthorne
19. Touch the Sky – Mark Ronson Rmx
20. ZiggyZa ZiggyZi – L’Xtrmst.Zen
21. Down with the Trumpets – Rizzle Kicks
22. Love – Foster the People